Michelle Obama Just Gave Young People This Key Piece of Advice in the Fight for Equality

The crowd roared when the former first lady arrived to discuss gender equality in Toronto today.

Former US first lady Michelle Obama spoke about education and equality for girls and women at a fireside chat hosted by the Economic Club of Canada and Plan International Canada on Tuesday.

Obama’s talk, “The Economics of Equality: Advancing Women and Girls to Change the World” had 1,500 tickets reserved for girls and women who could apply for them on Plan International Canada’s website, according toblogTO.

“The one thing I really didn’t want to happen was to have a bunch of Bay Street corporate leaders only bringing their children,” Traill told CBC earlier this month. “I don’t think that that’s inclusive and I don’t think that that’s fully the conversation that we need to have.”

Obama took the stage at Ryerson University’s Mattamy Athletic Centre in front of an excited crowd.

She first spoke about the importance of owning your own story and mistakes, knowing that success doesn’t come from not making mistakes, but from learning from them, according to live tweets from the event.

“You can’t make yourself feel small because other people don’t know how to feel big,” she said.

Obama reflected on her time in politics and offered insight on how to create change.

“One person can’t make the change. It happens from the bottom up, not the top down. That’s a good thing,” she said, “It means no one person can’t break all this either.”

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